More WLP2 Mods offered (old files)

[oh016]

Years ago I have done many mods of animals and objects for WLP 2.
A few of them might be included in Olympes DL package https://steamcommunity.com/app/304350/discussions/0/135512133547245901/ since we joined forces at that time.

But as far as I know all those that I offer now as complete DOWNLOAD PACKAGE are only available at my own DL space as all of these are my own creations.
(There is only one single exception that was a coproduction which will be explained below)

NOTE: For new animals to be added you MUST have "Horses" (Addon 2) installed or any other Addon that allows ingame choice of individual animals skin coloration!
I had bought the game in the old DVD version, so I do not know if ingame Addon names were changed when WLP2 went on Steam, but I hope not.
DVD sorting was
BaseGame
Addon1 = Crazy Zoo
Addon2 = Horses
Addon3 = Marine World
Addon4 = Farm World
Domesticanimals = all folders have names like Initdomesticanimals, Castdomesticanimals ...
So the DL folders containing my different mods refer to Base game and these listed Addons.

NOTE: To make any new content available on a free map you also MUST click "all available" when choosing the map! Custom content does never appear in campaigns.

I have bundled my mods into one DL package and translated the german descriptions. The package contains subfolders (animals, objects, textures, overwriting animal or object scripts, all sorted according to Addons in the appropriate folders). So you can easily transfer them into your game.

The READMEs included in the DL package will tell you how to add the mods to your game and how they are to be handled ingame once installed. Please READ them before posting questions!

Concerning languages: Please excuse me for not changing the original german names of the modded animals and items. This would have needed much more very repetitive typing work to do and I was afraid that an overlooked spelling error somewhere deep in the files might bug mods!

Link to my personal WLP2 Mod Collection
Steam does not allow me to post the direct link here - I am very sorry about that :-(

So please visit Mediafire Com (you can Google it easily)
and when you reach the main front page telling you "File sharing and storage made simple" add the following extension after the main adress
/file/ks9scv6mgn3w1hp/WLP2+Animal+and+Object+Mods+oh016.rar

Pick your choice and enjoy!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645548909
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645552601

[oh016]

Fishing Grizzly Bears - reality and ingame
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645540939
Collection of North American Animals
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645536822
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645538633
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645539759
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645543015
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645543329
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645542271
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645544123

[oh016]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645546194
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645544956
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645547172
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645547671
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645546623
List of Animals and Addon Folder

Farm Animal Collection

Wollschwein (Wool Pig) BaseGame
Irish Tinker (Horse) Addon 2
Hochlandrind (Highland Cattle) Addon 4
Brillenschaf (House Sheep) Addon 4
Suffolkschaf (House Sheep) Addon 4
SwartblessSchaf (House Sheep) Addon 4
Poitouesel (Poitou Donkey) Addon 4

North America (Oregon) Collection:

Timberwolf (Canadian Wolf) - new species, bigger and more colour variants Base Game
Wildschwein (Wild Pig) BaseGame
Nashornpelikan (White Pelican ) BaseGame
Pronghorn (North American Pronghorn Antelope) BaseGame
Dickhornschaf (Bighorn Sheep) - drawback due to no better mesh being available: horns not enough curved and curled so not really "Bighorn" :-( BaseGame
Truthahngeier (Turkey Vulture) BaseGame
Grizzly - textures only, adds natural colour variants BaseGame + Addon1 if installed
Steller Sealion - more cold resistant than Californian Sea Lion BaseGame + Addon3 if installed
Brautente (Wood Duck) - male / female may change textures in second generation. This is not an oversight but simply cannot be prevented due to game routine Addon1
Kojote(Coyote) Addon1
Steinadler (Golden Eagle) Addon1
StreifenSkunk (Striped Skunk) Addon1
Vielfrass (Wolverine) Addon1
Kanadagans (Canadian Goose) Addon1
Kermodebär ("Ghost Bear") - white variant of brown bear Addon1
Bigfoot ;-) Addon1
Leopardenhai (Leopard Shark) - feeds on sea fruit in nature ! Addon3
Graufuchs (Grey Fox) - the only regularly tree climbing canine ! Addon4
Fuchs (Red Fox) - textures only, adds naturally existing special colour variants Addon4

Seeadler (Bald Eagle) Addon1
Main design including sound and modification of flight behaviour is by me.
CREDIT: Feathers on wings and tail were corrected by Olympe and as we exchanged the best parts of our textures (she got my beak and face) mine should be identical to hers.
But we each stuck to our differing ini scripts (which governs behaviour)

Rotophant (African Elephant) - Texture only. Non mutating colour variant showing an elephant covered with red dust like in African "Tsavo National Park". My first mod for WLP2. The name "Roto" was a joke because "Rot" in German means "red". Looks best when placed on "redearthtexture" (see below)
Basegame + Addon1 if installed

Special 01
Luchs (Lynx) - North America: Mesh rework of Chartreux Cat Domestic Animals
NOTE: This will overwrite the Chartreux Cat since the original mesh had to be used to shorten the tail and adapt the head form. But you will not lose the Chartreux Cat - it has been added as a variant of the normal house cat, which is closer to the truth anyway since the Chartreux IS just a house cat too :-)

Special 02
You are enervated because wolves and dogs do not like to be in hilly terrain while in nature they will not object to that?
I have added 2 modded ini files in a subfolder which will solve your problem!
Important Note: These will overwrite the original files so be sure to backup!

[oh016]

NEW Animal Devices and Device MODS
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645553309
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645556149
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645553837
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645554046

[oh016]

List of Objects

Completely NEW Animal Devices (NO overwriting of original files !)

NATURAL FEEDING (no tending needed, created for free world scenarios)
New objects offering Fish, Meat, Seafood or Salt with natural optics and no need for personnel (though there will be a cost deducted corresponding to the rate of autoregeneration of Meat and Fish). More info in the README.

NATURAL RADIATORS and COOLERS
Both are available in new designs either as stones that can also be jumped over - only for Addon4 - or - if you own Addon3 - as shells which when placed into water will also serve as seafood feeders. These mods will not override the original items, so you can still use the original ones in your zoo.

SCRATCHING BASE: Trees can be placed over it to create "natural" looking scratching action on trees. For proper use see README
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645555059

Animal Device MODS overwriting original files

Important Note: As these will overwrite the original files be sure to backup everything!

Please also read the included READMEs so you will know how every object is handled correctly!

Anthill: Changes the texture to brown to better blend into woodland and grass
Treehouses: Allows trees to be placed over treehouses for a more natural look. Trees must be placed correctly otherwise animals will be blocked - check README !
Hang (Ropes): Same as Treehouses. Texture is changed to allow better hiding of the object.
Climbtree: Same as Hang
Climbingwall (Addon1 needed): Same as Hang
Fountains: Makes natural fountains buyable in free gameplay (to create lakes, rivers)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645556844

NEW PLANTS and Ingame Plants with ADDED FOOD OPTIONS
Compatible if you have only base game!

Some of these are completely new objects, some will overwrite the original files so please check carefully. I have put them in separate folders.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645587873
NEW GROUND TEXTURES
Compatible if you have only base game!

The included README will explain in detail how you can get them into your game

glacier non melting snow texture (for creating natural icy environments)

redearthpure
redearthgreengrass 3 variants of red earth as it exists in African savannas
redearthsavanna

Savannagras ini changes ground hardness to 50 which is more pleasing to many animals (NOTE: overwrites original ini so be sure to BACKUP)

[oh016]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645592101
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645592461
PLEASE NOTE:
I am retired as WLP2 creator for a very long time and currently I am also not spending much time on Steam.
So please do not expect me to answer prompty!

I have done my best to write the READMEs in the DL folder as clearly as possible so there should not occur any major problems in transfering the files into your own game.

The mod files have all been used in my own game for a long time in the past, so there should not be any bugs or glitches.

[olympe]

I think that most of this is already in the pack. What's most definitely missing is the lynx, congrats on that, it looks awesome! I'm not sure about the wild boar (pig) though, I'd have to look it up. Also missing is the improved tree house.

A word of caution: Be careful for installing this, or at least add the modpack afterwards. The grounds from here are already part of the modpack, but adding them will change a file (Wildlife Park 2/Init/groundsurfacemanager). The changes will render some other modded ground types unusable. When in doubt, preserve the file from the modpack, install this packet, then return the groundsurfacemanager file from the other modpack to its original place.

[oh016]

Originally posted by olympe:

I think that most of this is already in the pack. What's most definitely missing is the lynx, congrats on that, it looks awesome! I'm not sure about the wild boar (pig) though, I'd have to look it up. Also missing is the improved tree house.

If I remember right we agreed to not add the whole "Animal Device and Food Compilation" to your Pack as some of these items needed a specified description how to handle them correctly in game.
And concerning the "Farm Animals" and the "North America Animals" Compilations my last information was that most of these animals will stay only on my own downloads site - at least those that were not single uploads but came in complete packages.
I usually put a personal "Royalty Free License" (you may not resell, redistribute, or repackage the assets without explicit permission) on all my mods for any game I did mods for but with WLP2 I was always more lax, especially since your compilation was such a great effort and I really appreciated it very much
But you need not worry - my very detailed READMEs included in each download package ask every downloader to check for duplicates before installing and what was in your package when you started to be active here at Steam can stay in there (as long as I am credited at least somewhere) !

It has been a long time since we met at the forum and you have been quite busy since then
I quit posting there because every time staying in the original games forum I caught at least two trojans and one virus (the company not being interested in any upkeeping or moderation any more) and the last virus was so bad that I had to reinstall windows (one of those that skips through even the most efficient firewall due to a hiding mechanism).

Originally posted by olympe:

A word of caution: Be careful for installing this, or at least add the modpack afterwards. The grounds from here are already part of the modpack, but adding them will change a file (Wildlife Park 2/Init/groundsurfacemanager). The changes will render some other modded ground types unusable. When in doubt, preserve the file from the modpack, install this packet, then return the groundsurfacemanager file from the other modpack to its original place.

No worry there either: I did not add the "groundsurfacemanager file" to the download package but instead included a detailed description how people can find and change this file easily on their own to adapt it to the textures they want! And a warning not to overwrite this file without backup and an explanation what can happen if they use non compatible groundsurfacemanager files from other sources.
I have been off a long time but I am still thorough

Anyway: That´s not a competition. I am just offering things that I thought might not yet be available and I also found out people here have been asking for changes in buildings and decorations. Not much to be offered there, but at least those modified animal devices and 3 "new" plants.

I only found out 14 days ago that WLP2 had come to Steam and I am very happy there is still activity. It is a great game and I think neither WLP3 nor any other zoo game has topped it until now although it is already an oldtimer!

[olympe]

I just checked, there is, indeed, some missing credit in the modpack: I mentioned that the animal devices aren't mine, but didn't cite a source. I also added a credit system by frame color of the buttons, each color assigned to one modder. If there was "only" textures added to an animal by a user, this is indicated with a color splash on the button. Which color is for which modder can be seen in the Readme file. (Yours is a slightly reddish bright purple, btw - but credit still goes to your old username in the deepsilver forums, nadira.)

Where credit is missing (oversight by me) is in the plant section. I reworked that thing completely and it must have slipped my mind. It's definitely there in the animals, as well as in the animal devices and grounds (for which I honestly don't remember any restriction). I also don't remember any restriction about the animal packs, but I'm more than willing to take them down. What I do remember is that I created the whole thing from scratch by looking at what modded files I had way after the deepsilver forum went down, so it's possible it happened that way.

If you want me to change any content, please give me until after the first weekend in March - I've got something (flu?) incoming and don't know how active I'll be in the next couple of days.

On another matter, I think WLP 3 is more than getting there - have you looked at all the DLCs yet? Dino Invasion (definitely not my cup of tea due to inaccurate depiction of dinosaurs), Creatures of the Caribbean, Down Under, Alaska, Amazonas and Africa look quite promising, and I've been quite tempted to buy the whole collection (which is way too expensive IMHO) just to try and mod it. Although it also looks like the developers simply took a lot of WLP 2 content and recycled it for WLP 3, including the exact models and textures while adding maybe up to 4 completely new animals to each pack - it's incredibly obvious if you look at the mermaid (model and texture) from the Caribbean pack. It even looks like the developers got inspired by modpack content in some cases - quagga, kudu, emu, cassowary, Hector's dolphin (okay, so I had a subspecies, the Maui dolphin, in the mod), something that looks like it might be a thylacine (=Beutelwolf) do look oddly familiar.

[oh016]

No problem with credits ! You know I am not into "fame".
It is just the fact that the upkeeping of that free download space over all these years takes some effort (you know how many WLP2 creations were lost because people did not care about their accounts) so I am happy if I have at least a few visits - one per month is quite sufficient. I do not hunt for high DL numbers!

I had to change my nick because the old one - although primarily used by nobody except me - now has become very common. And I did not want to be "name" number "xyz" at the forums where I registered after my WLP2 times. So here at Steam I use my new nick oh016. But I do not mind the old nick being mentioned in the WLP2 creations. This is me too - only in past times.

I bought WLP3 but although the graphic was great I was so disappointed by those unchooseable rosy and blueish colors the animals sometimes had and by the way the devs had kept some old ennervating game features that I played it never again after a short test.

I think my WLP times are over, I play different games now.
But I still give WLP2 the credit for having been one of my favourite games

But I am happy to see you are still keeping the old flag up and now for WLP3 too!

[olympe]

Actually, you misunderstood. I'm not doing anything for WLP 3 since I'd need to re-buy it, plus all the extra stuff. I don't really feel like spending that kind of money only to try and mod for other people, I'm not that altruistic. And I'm not actively modding for WLP 2, either - unless there's a request I can work with. I just made the stuff available that I collected and put together (and added some of my own stuff to) from way back when. And, yes, I offered an English translation, too. Nothing more, nothing less.

[oh016]

That´s that english conversation here on Steam - minsunderstandings
We did better in german!
So you were practically doing the same as me - offering old stuff ;-)

War schön mal wieder von dir zu hören! Ich habe den Austausch mit dir während unserer Moddingzeit immer sehr inspirierend und nett gefunden!
Wünsche dir jedenfalls noch viel Spass - in der Spielewelt und außerhalb!
Ziehe mich jetzt aus diesem Forum wieder zurück !

Last post. BYE and have a great time !

[smuc]

hhow do i download mods in i t

[oh016]

The avialable download packages for mods made by Olympe and myself have README/text included in the downloads that explain exactly how the animals, items or textures can be added to the game.

You have to find where the different edition of WLP2 are installed on your computer.
BaseGame
Addon1 = Crazy Zoo
Addon2 = Horses
Addon3 = Marine World
Addon4 = Farm World
Domesticanimals = all folders have names like Initdomesticanimals.

Everything else is explained in detail in the README text.

As an example for you I copied the text from my README "New Animals":

"You need to have Horses, Marine World, Farm World, Dino World, Domestic Animals or Fantasy installed because creating new animals for WLP2 was only possible by using the "backdoor" of colour variations which was added first with Marine World. Does not work if Main Game or Crazy Zoo are the only installed editions.

The core scripts are hard locked and do not allow for new species to be added nor can meshes be modified without destroying the looks of an already existing animal (see Lynx).

How to add modded animals easily:

Check if you have the Addon in question and then pull ALL folders (Audio, Cast, Init) with that Addons number to where you have found the original folders with the same name.
When you are asked if you want to integrate the new folders into the existing one click "Yes". The new content will be added without risk to your already existing content.
All files included in this "animals" folder will change NOTHING in the original game files so you are on the safe side!
(NOTE: I have put all overwriting files in special folders so please check on the other folders READMEs !)

ATTENTION: To make new animals and textures available on a free map you must click „all available“ when chosing the map!"

End of README

If this explanation sounds too difficult to you perhaps you can find some friend or family at home to help you with doing it on your computer!

Good Luck!

[JoX2000]

Originally posted by oh016:

Years ago I have done many mods of animals and objects for WLP 2.
Link to my personal WLP2 Mod Collection
Steam does not allow me to post the direct link here - I am very sorry about that :-(

So please visit Mediafire Com (you can Google it easily)
and when you reach the main front page telling you "File sharing and storage made simple" add the following extension after the main adress
/file/ks9scv6mgn3w1hp/WLP2+Animal+and+Object+Mods+oh016.rar

Pick your choice and enjoy!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645548909
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645552601

Since you are probably the only person that created a new animal with different than original mesh, I'm wondering if you would be OK with sharing a know-how of how to achive this. I would be interested in putting some time to create some additional animals but have no idea where to start.